FreightCar America, Inc. Forecasted to Earn FY2026 Earnings of $0.53 Per Share (NASDAQ:RAIL)

FreightCar America, Inc. (NASDAQ:RAIL) – Stock analysts at Noble Financial issued their FY2026 earnings estimates for FreightCar America in a research report issued on Tuesday, August 27th. Noble Financial analyst M. Reichman forecasts that the transportation company will post earnings of $0.53 per share for the year. Noble Financial has a “Strong-Buy” rating on the stock. The consensus estimate for FreightCar America’s current full-year earnings is $0.20 per share. Noble Financial also issued estimates for FreightCar America’s FY2027 earnings at $0.57 EPS and FY2028 earnings at $0.62 EPS.

FreightCar America (NASDAQ:RAIL) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, August 12th. The transportation company reported $0.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.05. The firm had revenue of $147.42 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $127.09 million. FreightCar America had a negative return on equity of 28.11% and a negative net margin of 0.62%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.02 EPS.

Separately, StockNews.com started coverage on FreightCar America in a research report on Tuesday. They set a “hold” rating for the company.

FreightCar America Price Performance

Shares of RAIL opened at $7.08 on Thursday. The company has a market capitalization of $132.47 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.60 and a beta of 1.97. FreightCar America has a fifty-two week low of $2.25 and a fifty-two week high of $8.84. The business’s 50-day moving average is $4.05 and its 200-day moving average is $3.72.

Institutional Trading of FreightCar America

Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its position in shares of FreightCar America by 24.4% during the second quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 29,932 shares of the transportation company’s stock worth $104,000 after purchasing an additional 5,880 shares during the period. Renaissance Technologies LLC raised its position in FreightCar America by 43.4% in the 2nd quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 116,887 shares of the transportation company’s stock valued at $408,000 after buying an additional 35,387 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Vanguard Group Inc. raised its position in FreightCar America by 4.7% in the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 584,292 shares of the transportation company’s stock valued at $2,250,000 after buying an additional 26,412 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 31.96% of the company’s stock.

About FreightCar America

FreightCar America, Inc, through its subsidiaries, engages in design, manufacture, and sale of railcars and railcar components for the transportation of bulk commodities and containerized freight products in the United States and Mexico. It operates in two segments, Manufacturing and Parts. The company offers a range of railcars, including open top hoppers, mill gondola cars, intermodal and non-intermodal flat cars, coal cars; bulk commodity cars covered hopper cars, coil steel cars, boxcars, woodchip hoppers, aluminum vehicle carriers, and articulated bulk container railcars.